My Dad was Scoutmaster of
Troop 82, North Bellmore, NY for many years in the 1970's and 1980's.

Taken at Beaverkill in
1969. This was a scan of a very underexposed slide. Film used was
Kodachrome, probably KR64. While working with these old slides
I've observed that Kodachrome has held up very well, slightly
better than Ektachrome. Both Kodak films are much better the
GAF film that I occasionally used.

Stopping for a rest
along the trail. Dad made this hiking stick from a metal rod
tightly wrapped with rope. It was surprisingly heavy (for me as a
kid anyway), but he liked it. I always thought that lugging it
around was more trouble than it was worth.

All my GAF slides, including this
one, now have an extreme bluish cast. I correcting the color
here somewhat. It looks much better than the
original.

This is one of my
favorite pictures of me and my dad. This was taken at Tom Quick's
Pond in 1969. When you hand your camera to someone to take your
picture you're never sure what you'll get. This one is a winner.

Here we are ready for a
swim at Buckskin waterfront in 1968. Is that the Tuttle House in
the background? All that was left of it
in 1998 was a crumbling foundation.

Every year Dad would
paint a rock at the entrance to our camp site. This was the first
one he did, and the only rock painting picture I could find. He
kept our troop number and year small, and tried to make the
subject appropriate to the Chief whom the camp site was named
after.

Here is the finished
product. During our visit in 1998, Dave and I could find no trace
of this rock, or even the camp site.